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"Other Sheep I have that are not of this fold; them also I must bring." - Jesus
"When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door." - Clarence Jones
"I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep, I dreamed of these things, and when I awoke, the first thing I thought of was this great work." - David Brainerd
"It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies." - James Hudson Taylor
"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." - John Scott
"We are not over-loaded, we are under-burdened." - Anonymous
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God." - William Carey
"God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith." - Andrew A. Bonar
"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!" - Jonathan Goforth
"The mission of the church is missions." - Oswald J. Smith
"Praying for the lost is deep-knee fishing." - WDB (Missionary to Brazil)
"I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages - villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world." - Robert Moffat (The quote that inspired David Livingstone to go to Africa)
"As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and the knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote my time and energy to those who have both." - J.L. Ewen
"If sinners be damned, at least leap to hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged." - C. Gordon Olson
"Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees." - James Hudson Taylor
"I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'" - Gladys Aylward
"The church that does not evangelize will fossilize." - Oswald J. Smith
"You can't take the Gospel to the wrong address." - Anonymous
"And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives...and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." - Nate Saint
"A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story." - KP Yohannan
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Anonymous
"Oh, that I had a thousand lives, and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals." - Robert Moffat
"I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls to Christ." - Count Zinzindorf
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." - C.T. Studd
"The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner." - William Cameron Townsend
"Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1.) Poverty 2.) Power." - T.J. Bach
"From my many years' experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross." - Sadhu Sundar Singh
"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient." - William Carey
"God had only one Son and He made Him a missionary." - David Livingstone
"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The Churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves." - C.T. Studd
"Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people - the one who is called, and the one who loves the called." - Oswald Chambers
"Christians don't tell lies, they go to church and sing them." - A.W. Tozer
"The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian." - Amy Carmichael
"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to lean, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray; if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray." - Frederick Franson
"When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen." (Said of John Geddie, Missionary to the New Hebrides in the mid 1800's).
"I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known the glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard." - William Burns
"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in Heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice." - John Scott
"I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares." - Alexander Duff
"Today Christians spend more on dog food then missions." - Leonard Ravenhill
"It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay home." - James Hudson Taylor
"We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first." - Oswald J. Smith
"Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them." - David Bryant
"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the Gospel of Christ." - Francis Xavier
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell." - C.T. Studd
"When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone." - James Hudson Taylor
"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." - Mike Stachura
"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God; first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - James Hudson Taylor
"I love to live on the brink eternity." - David Brainard
"'Not Called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of Hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell Him where you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world." - William Booth (Founder of the Salvation Army)
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
"If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a King." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"The world is my parish." John Wesley
"At this moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love. I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, until I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus Himself." (John G. Patton, Missionary to the New Hebrides in the mid & late 1800's).
"The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward Hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night." - Larry Stockhill
"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." - Andrew Murray
"Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?" - Jim Elliot
"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph." - Samuel Zwemer
"Why wait for a call when you have a command?" - Bob Hughes
"The Church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical." - Alexander Duff
"I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the world." - David Brainerd
"No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation." - John R. Mott
"Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go." A.B. Simpson
"World missions is God's therapy for the sin of selfishness within the local church." Clifford Clark
"Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ." - George Whitefield
"Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine." - Carl Baugh
Whatever we yield, God accepts;
Whatever He accepts, He cleanses;
Whatever He cleanses, He fills;
Whatever He fills, He uses." - Anonymous
"Giving is not a matter of can or cannot; it is a matter of will or will not." - Anonymous
"Man's greatest discovery is to discover the will of God. Man's greatest achievement is to do the will of God." - Anonymous
"World missions is not an elective for the local church, it is the "required course." - Anonymous
"Our world missions goal - a New Testament Church for every people, and the gospel for every person." - Anonymous
"Our local churches are born to reproduce themselves." - Anonymous
"If the arms of the church do not reach around the world, they are too short." - Anonymous
"Live simply so that other can simply live." - Anonymous
"In the study of the divine Word I learned that to obtain successful workers, what was needed was not elaborate appeals for help, but first earnest prayer to God to thrust forth laborers, and secondly the deepening of the spiritual life of the Church, so that men be unable to stay at home." - James Hudson Taylor
"The only things we keep permanently are the things we give away." - Anonymous
"It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: It is another and very different thing for him to understand that missions are the chief end of the church, and therefore the chief end for which the congregation exists." - Andrew Murray in "The Key to the Missionary Problem).
"Christ actually meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work and the neglect of prayer is the great reason the church has not greater power over the masses in Christian and heathen countries...the power of the church to truly bless rests on intercession: asking and receiving Heavenly gifts to carry to men." - Andrew Murray
"Mission giving must be more than surplus giving - it must become both sacrificial and faith giving." - Anonymous
"Too many Christians think the Great Commission is just the Great Suggestion." - Anonymous
"If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." - David Davidson
"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart." - Bob Pierce, World Vision Founder
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him." - James Hudson Taylor
"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael
"Sympathy is no substitute for action." - David Livingstone
"God does not want men who are distinguished, but men whom the world cannot extinguish." - Anonymous
"There are no closed countries if you do not expect to come back." - Larry Poston
"There is no greater spiritual and mysterious truth than that Christ our Head is actually and entirely dependent upon the members of His body for carrying out the plans which He, has formed." - Andrew Murray |
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